In 2008 the astronomer Philip Plait became the new President of the JREF and Randi became the Chairman of the JREF Board of Directors.

Then in December 2009 Phil Plait left the JREF due to involvement in a television project, and D. J. Grothe assumed the position of President on January 1, 2010.

The JREF sponsors The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge offering a prize of US $ 1, 000, 000 to eligible applicants who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.

* James Randi Educational Foundation The James Randi Education Foundation ( JREF ) was founded to promote critical thinking in the areas of the supernatural and paranormal.

The JREF has provided skeptical views in the area of parapsychology.

The James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF ) is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi.

The JREF also maintains a legal defense fund to assist persons who are attacked as a result of their investigations and criticism of people who make paranormal claims.

The JREF website publishes a ( nominally daily ) blog at randi. org Swift, which includes the latest JREF news and information, as well as exposes of paranormal claimants.

On April 3, 1996 James Randi formally announced the creation of the JREF through his email hotline: It is now headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

While on the ISS, Lu teamed up with magician James Randi ( founder of JREF ) to perform a card trick in outer space.

This same procedure was being done by Randi back on Earth at the JREF headquarters in front of witnesses from the Miami Herald.

The two cards complete with autographs are framed for public view at the JREF offices in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

In 2011 the JREF again issued the million dollar challenge to James Van Praagh, Allison DuBois, Sylvia Browne, Carla Baron, John Edward, and others if they can prove their abilities in controlled experiments.

Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF ).

The officers of the JREF are:

* Swift: Online Newsletter of the JREF James Randi Educational Foundation newsletter written by Carroll, March 17, 2006

Yorke's other collaborations include the 1998 single " Rabbit in Your Headlights ", which he sang and co-wrote with DJ Shadow and which closes Psyence Fiction, the debut album by the group UNKLE ; " El President ", a 1998 duet with Isabel Monteiro of the band Drugstore, which was also released as a single, and vocals on the 2010 track "... And The World Laughs with You " by experimental musician and producer Flying Lotus of Warp Records.

Past world leaders, including U. S. President George H. W. Bush, also attended and applauded their national teams during the parade, in which DJ Tiësto played trance music.

He was the music director for WHTG-FM, hosted shows on MTV and VH1, was Vice President of A & R and Artist Development at Columbia Records, and currently is a DJ on WRXP and Sirius Satellite Radio.

The AP national newswire covered one such protest in November, 1980 when a DJ on the station began playing Lesley Gore's " It's My Party ( and I'll Cry if I Want To )" continuously for hours when President Ronald Reagan was first elected.

Its present President is K. William Grothe, who served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for WorldCom, where he headed the company's merger and acquisition activities

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

After his death, the Looney Tunes cartoon Daffy Duck for President, based on the book that Jones had written and using Jones ' style for the characters, originally scheduled to be released in 2000, was released in 2004 as part of disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD set.

In 2005, then American Psychiatric Association President Steven Sharfstein released a statement in which he conceded that psychiatrists had " allowed the biopsychosocial model to become the bio-bio-bio model ".

* 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

In response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, former President Bush released to the public this initial list on October 10, 2001 of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists.

Among his top ten R & B hits during this latter period included " Funky President ( People It's Bad )" and " Get Up Offa That Thing ", the latter song released in 1976 and aimed at musical rivals such as Barry White, The Ohio Players and K. C.

When Kaunda was released from prison in January 1960 he was elected President of UNIP.

Controlling for the economic data being released, the authors find that there are between 9. 6 and 14. 7 percent fewer positive stories when the incumbent President is a Republican.

He was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and released from prison in 1869.

Although he was considered innocent and released on 22 December 2001, he was declared a terrorist by U. S. President George W. Bush in his televised address on 23 December 2001.

* Opposition against Apartheid in South Africa and worldwide grows to a mass international condemnation of racial segregation policies comes to a peak by December 1989 in the Springbok summit when SA President de Klerk grants clemency to imprisoned ANC activist Nelson Mandela who was released in February 1990.

** Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U. S. President Jimmy Carter.

* September – According to the film JFK, previously classified documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be released to the public.

In addition, Benetton released an advertisement that displayed President Barack Obama of the United States and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela kissing.

Trade unionists initially arrested for protesting working conditions were released on the order of President Ben Ali and officially pardoned in October 2009 in a move that was welcomed by Amnesty International.

On July 30, 1974, President Nixon complied with the order and released the subpoenaed tapes.

Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first President of Namibia watched by Nelson Mandela ( who had been released from prison shortly beforehand ) and representatives from 147 countries, including 20 heads of state.

A taped conversation of a meeting several weeks after passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was released in 2001, revealing that McNamara expressed doubts to President Johnson that the attack had even occurred.

Her prison term was also eventually commuted by President Jimmy Carter, and Hearst was released from prison on February 1, 1979, having served 22 months.

Since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, Coppola feels that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.

On 19 September 1899, following a passionate campaign by his supporters, including leading artists and intellectuals like Émile Zola, Dreyfus was pardoned by President Émile Loubet in 1899 and released from prison.

The first, Bushisms / President George Herbert Walker Bush in His Own Words, was released in 1992.

With the return of democracy to the Central African Republic in 1993, Kolingba declared a general amnesty for all prisoners as one of his final acts as President, and Bokassa was released on 1 August 1993.